UNHCR: Situation at Iraqi refugee camp 'primitive'

A large number of exhausted minority Yazidis fleeing the Sinjar mountain chain in northwest Iraq after militants from the Islamic State group took over their nearby villages, have reached the Newroz camp in the Syrian Kurdish town of Malikiya.

"The situation in the camp is still kind of primitive," said Maha Sidky, the head of Field Office for UNHCR in Qamishli.

"But we're doing our best to upgrade the standard of the camp so that it is at least gaining their dignity," she said, adding that the estimated number of people in the camp stands at 12,000.